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Senior Software Engineer - Performance Tooling at Microsoft

Department: Software Engineering

Compensation

$119,800 – $234,700/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
Redmond, Washington · Mountain View, California
Type
Full-time
Level
senior
Posted

Description

Microsoft is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Performance Tooling for its Artificial Intelligence Frameworks team. The role focuses on benchmarking, debugging, profiling, and optimizing large-scale model training and inference workloads across CPUs and GPUs, including OpenAI and other LLM models. Responsibilities span AI software abstractions, compilers, runtimes, libraries, APIs, performance monitoring, deployment optimization, and collaboration with researchers and engineers. The position requires a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and at least four years of technical engineering experience; preferred qualifications include advanced degrees, extensive performance optimization experience, and familiarity with deep-learning frameworks and GPU technologies. The typical U.S. base pay range is USD 119,800 to USD 234,700 per year, with higher ranges for the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area.

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